Uncovering mummies is a sure way to prompt Ancient Egyptian curses that might be true, which explains why the Bashiri mummy has remained undisturbed for more than two millennia. This mysterious ...

EGYPT -- Egyptian scientists have digitally unwrapped the mummified remains of the pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing tantalizing details about the life and death of the Egyptian king for the first time ...

An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death terrorized Europe. Researchers analyzed an Egyptian mummy from a museum in Turin, ...

The mummies of the world exhibit is wrapping up this weekend after an exhilarating run at the Museum of Idaho.

SAQQARA, Egypt — More than 2,600 years since they were buried, archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found at least 59 ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of the country's capital ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

, uncovered the body's true identity after spotting a tiny foot in the abdomen on a scan. According to Marzena Ozarek-Szilke, anthropologist and archaeologist from the Faculty of Archaeology of the ...

While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It expanded over time until everyone from the poor up were being preserved for ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...

LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...